I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE
THINKING
We’ve all experienced
times when we’re pretty sure we know what someone is thinking. But we don’t
acknowledge it because if it’s something bad, we don’t want to be accused of
being judgmental, and we don’t want to be wrong. But God wants us to believe in
what we see by the spirit. He wants us to hear spiritually so that we’ll begin
to understand the deeper levels of human behavior and be able to act quickly with
wisdom.
Perception and
understanding come from the Lord. When we’re pretty sure we’re getting a bead
on what someone is thinking, we can ask the Lord to confirm it. Or, on the
other hand, He’ll let us know when we’ve misunderstood. But we don’t give up.
God gave this ability to Jesus for a purpose, and we are the Lord’s sisters and
brothers, and God wants us to exercise this ability as well. This amazing
ability helps us to see the problems and get to the solutions faster.
We see in Matthew 13:13 that
Jesus tells his disciples that people without the spirit of Christ within,
often don’t perceive the truth when they see it, and they can’t understand the
truth when they hear it.
“Therefore
speak I to them in parables: because they seeing, see not; and hearing, they
hear not, neither do they understand.”
To consistently and
accurately understand the deeper levels of human behavior, you have to have the
spirit of Christ within. Throughout the gospels, we see Jesus demonstrating the
ability to know what people were thinking, perceiving accurately what He saw,
and understanding perfectly what He was hearing. Jesus wants us to do this too.
The following are just some examples of how valuable this ability was to Jesus
and can be to us as well:
Matt. 12:25: “And Jesus knew their
thoughts.”
Matt. 12:14-15: “Then the Pharisees went out,
and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. But when Jesus
knew it, he withdrew himself from thence.”
Matt. 22:18: “But Jesus perceived their wickedness,
and said, ‘Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?’”
Mark 8:17: “And when Jesus knew it, he
saith unto them, ‘Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? Perceive ye not yet,
neither understand? Have ye your heart yet hardened?’”
Luke 6:7-8 “And the scribes and Pharisees watched him,
whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation
against him. But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man
which had the withered hand, ‘Rise up, and stand forth in the midst.’”
Luke 20:23: “But he perceived their craftiness,
and said unto them, ‘Why tempt ye me?’”
The Apostle Paul explains: “To whom God would
make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles;
which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col.
1:27). And with the spirit of Christ in us, we can do what He did.
Jesus told us in John 14:12: “Verily, verily,
I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that
I do shall he do also.”
Don’t doubt your ability to see and perceive,
hear, and understand. The Lord Jesus gave you His same ability to know what’s
on people’s minds. Test it out. Believe what you see. There are just some
things in life we need to know ahead of time, and we can if we allow the Christ
in us to open our eyes and ears.
In truth, we already see and hear. Now we need
to step out in believing, and acting according to His wisdom.
Love, Carolyn
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